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Peer reviewedSafer, Daniel J. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1986
This review summarizes pertinent literature on the differential impact of primary versus secondary public education on students. Data show that junior high/middle school students with prominent elementary school maladjustments have a 5-13-fold greater rate of grade failure, suspension, and undue absenteeism than do students without such…
Descriptors: Attendance, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade Repetition, Junior High Schools
Floerchinger, Debra S. – Campus Activities Programming, 1988
Involvement on campus varies from involvement in student organization leadership positions to paid paraprofessional positions that also reflect strong leadership expectations. A minimum amount of student development knowledge is essential for advisers for a successful functioning and ethical interaction with students. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Students, Faculty Advisers, Higher Education, Intervention
Peer reviewedForrest, Donald V. – School Counselor, 1983
Discusses the incidence of depression in school students and outlines common indicators of depression. School counselors should consider using a wide range of interventions including self-esteem building, cognitive restructuring, correcting misconceptions, improving social interaction, relaxation, and coping skills to help clients alter negative…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Counseling Techniques, Depression (Psychology), Elementary Secondary Education
Gilbert, Marvin G. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1982
Discusses the impact of graduate education on marital and family relations, and finances. Concludes that the graduate school experience produces familial stress and is potentially destructive to family life, especially for married female students, and suggests the need for college student personnel intervention and research. (Author)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Family Life, Females, Financial Problems
Ascher, Carol – Equity and Choice, 1990
Southeast Asian refugee youth in the United States must contend with significant cultural differences and long-term adjustment stress. While struggling to develop an adult identity, these adolescents must also work through the trauma of being refugees, adapting to a new culture without relinquishing the heritage fundamental to their development.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents
Peck, Robert F. – 1980
Psychologists have long been interested in the causes of student success or failure in college. In the late 1950's, investigators began to examine behaviors beyond the cognitive realm as crucial elements in the student's adaptation to college life. Research on adolescents' transition from high school to college identified several components of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, College Environment
Benjamin, Esther – 1979
A literature review of barriers to women who re-enter higher education studies is presented. Several factors are thought to influence the experience of re-entry women: the type of institution she attends, the type of program that she finds there, and her personal and social situation. Re-entry women are discussed in terms of inner city women, low…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adult Students, College Environment, College Students
